An interesting situation happened with Carolina this week. If you review the previous entry, you’ll see three of Carolina’s wins are currently considered beatflukes. This one is a little hard for me to defend, so I’m going to explore it a little more. Look at the beatfluke graph again: Normally there would have been the [...]

Here’s the post-MFN beatpaths graph for Week 9. No rock-papers-scissors for IND/DEN/NE! Last week’s power rankings were 8-6, and we’re 72-56 for the year, or 13th in King Kaufman’s Panel O’ Experts. Splits: WAS/DAL Beatflukes: CAR=>TB, CAR=>NO, CAR=>BAL, MIA=>CHI, STL=>DEN (yes, very weird that Carolina has three beatflukes – a very tough team to define) [...]